6/2/2023 0 Comments The witch elm![]() ![]() Although the book involves a murder, “the core story arc is not the murder and the solution,” French tells Alexandra Schwartz. French’s latest book, “ The Witch Elm,” departs from her line of police procedurals: the narrator is a civilian, a happy-go-lucky young man named Toby whose life is turned upside down when he is attacked during a burglary. Tana French was an actor in her thirties when she sat down to write a novel, about a mystery that takes the lives of two children, which became the global blockbuster “ In the Woods.” With her subsequent books about the Dublin Murder Squad, French became known as “the queen of Irish crime fiction”-despite having been born in the United States. ![]() Photograph from The Irish Independent / eyevine / Redux ![]()
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